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Francisco 2.0

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  1. I'm imagining which countries will start the bidding for some of that sweet US Treasury proceeds to house American prisoners. Also, imagine the conditions of those prisons:
  2. More likely they would nationalize them, hand them over to BYD or Geely or some other Chinese EV manufacturer and tell Elon to get fucked.
  3. Yep. Something should have been done in Biden's first 3 years. But an attempt was made, and even the hard-liners in the Senate and House were good with it, until Trump woke up from his nap and decided that any effort would give him one less hammer to use on Biden.
  4. I'm going to go out on a limb and state that if the Starbucks CEO donates something, say, oh, a million to the Trump Presidential Library fund, coffee will be exempt from import tariffs.
  5. Our local high school got into trouble with Georgia Tech around 20 years ago. Seems that one of the students working on the school website used one their yellowjacket logo, but they linked the logo back to Georgia Tech's website, so the GT counsel had an easy time of finding out who was using the logo without permission. The AD and supt received a cease and desist over use of the logo, but GT extended an olive branch: $1 dollar per year, for a 99 year contract to use the logo on courts, clothing, anything the school wanted. The school paid immediately.
  6. A followup:
  7. Damn. Columbia's president isn't fucking around.
  8. Imagine what cocaine is gonna jump to.
  9. Except there was an effort made, until Trump started twisting arms of the GOP senators to make them drop the deal. It included many of the things the MAGA folks wanted. Why, almost a full year ago: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html
  10. Paid $50k finders fee on top of the cost of the vehicle. Sideswiped by a fucking scooter caused the vehicle to be "totaled". And insurance won't cover the full cost.
  11. Dude, effective at noon on Jan 20, if MAL gets damaged, it will get fixed or rebuilt courtesy of Uncle Sam. Or some oligarch kicks in $100 million into a Trump crypto coin or whatever. Shit, maybe they just hand the money over to Trump on TV; it's not like anything is going to happen to either of them
  12. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-staff-musk-conflict-00200311
  13. Pre-covid, I took my parents and family on a 2 week road trip to the northeast. One of the places dad wanted to see was the Air Force museum in Dayton. The Air Force One that carried Kennedy's casket back to DC is one of the exhibits. They actually had to take a saw to a partition on the inside of the plane to get the casket inside. Bottom pic is where the cut was made; the partition is wider at the bottom. The saw marks were covered up with some silver metal trim afterwards. Francisco Jr. Ms. Francisco and Dad: And the interior picture where the cut was made. Not my pic; I thought I had taken one of this, but alas. Pic courtesy of the Air Force museum website:
  14. This might be one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever read on this fine forum, and I've been around now for [checks notes] 13 years or so.
  15. Somewhere, a MAGA senator or rep is sitting up and taking notes:
  16. Politico has the article, but for some reason, I can't paste a URL here any longer. Aside from that, here's a heartwarming story: Your next congressperson just got pardoned
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